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Hand-drawn charts on key issues from Guardian Australia's data team

  • Unhappy faces with gritted teeth drawn on graph paper

    Grin and bear it? More than a third of lower income Australians are uncomfortable with how their teeth look

    The cost of dental care is a significant barrier to treatment, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports
  • Australia’s new coalmine expansionscould release over 1.3bn tonnes of carbon

    See the greenhouse gas impact of Labor’s decision to expand three NSW coalmines

    The 1.3bn tonnes of carbon that may be generated by the three projects is more than triple Australia’s entire annual emissions
  • Thumbnail for the one big chart on vaping and smoke shops

    There are way more smoke and vape shops than there used to be. Has the government crackdown had any effect?

    New business registrations with vaping-related keywords in the name were lower in 2024 than for any other year
  • Hand-drawn chart showing illustrations of Australian houses coloured according to their rating on the Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme.

    Why so many Australian homes are either too hot or too cold

    Chances are the reason you’re cold right now isn’t just because of a polar air mass – it’s because millions of Australian houses are poorly insulated
  • Nuclear power is more expensive than most other sources

    One Big Chart: how does the cost of nuclear power compare to renewables?

    Peter Dutton has suggested Australia should build large-scale nuclear reactors, but CSIRO’s GenCost report shows the price compared to solar and wind
  • No increase to base jobseeker rate means payments remain below poverty line

    No increase to base jobseeker rate in budget means Centrelink payment remains below poverty line

    There will be no change to unemployment payments despite a government committee and several social services groups calling for an increase
  • Indigenous Australians are disproportionately affected by family and domestic violence

    Family violence: First Nations women 33 times more likely to be hospitalised than non-Indigenous women

    Hospitalisation rates are higher in remote areas and Indigenous families also risk having their children removed by the state if they ask for help
  • Australia's social housing queue

    As 190,000 households wait for social housing, application numbers are only increasing

    Figure is up from 175,000 in June 2022, after Labor pledged to build 20,000 social housing dwellings on taking government in 2021
  • Electric car and bike petrol bubbles

    EVs are booming but electric bikes are really cutting emissions

    Ebikes and mopeds, known as electric micromobility, were responsible for two-thirds of the 1.5m barrels of oil displaced a day by EVs in 2022
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